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From Now On You'll Be Able To Access NASA Research For Free (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes:Fancy some super nerdy bedtime reading? NASA has announced that it will now provide public access to all journal articles on research funded by the agency. Any scientists publishing NASA-funded work will be required to upload their papers to a free, online database called PubSpace within a year of publication. PubSpace is managed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) PubMed Central, which archives biomedical research. You can see NASA-funded studies here, with recent examples including a paper on cardiovascular disease in Apollo astronauts and one on Martian tsunamis caused by meteor impacts. NASA explains that the new web portal is a response to a 2013 government request for federally-funded research to be more accessible. There are a few obvious exceptions to what's included, such as and material that's related to national security or affected by export controls. NASA's openness follows a trend to make science results more accessible outside of published, often paywalled journals.
... I want to be able to access all of the data they collect for free (posting Anon. so the NSA can't find out who I am (that was sarcasm by the way) ).
.. for a fee.
Anything's for sale... at the right price!
we already paid for. Gee, Thanks.
Except Bigelow papers and the like on aliens and what not.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bigelow ranch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bigelow and NASA:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/a...
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http://www.educatinghumanity.c...
http://beforeitsnews.com/paran...
http://www.michaelleehill.net/...
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The greater access everyone has to primary source material the better. When most people are only learning about new discoveries from mass media that cites research papers, much is lost and bias is introduced. The results of research should not be a walled fortress for the elite in-crowd, but an open, accessible library of knowledge for all.
PubMed is the open access research paper depository for all federally funded medical research. It's open and free too.
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Will NASA make the data in those papers freely available in their entirety? That's just as important as the papers. I'd sure like to see the raw unadjusted climate data sets.
There are a few obvious exceptions to what's included, such as and material that's related to national security or affected by export controls.
Such as what and material that's related to national security or affected by export controls? One or more words seem to be missing there. :)
I understand, they can't tell us what it is that we can't see. Got it.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
1. results and findings of throwing things off the 5th floor including preliminary impact analysis of the rolly chair with the bum wheel
2. design and analysis fundamentals of keiths weird potentially fish based lunches
3. who backed into nicoles 1994 Toyota Tercel, and preliminary research findings into nicoles general inability to park in lot G
4. analytic research and results of the exploratory discovery research into why the second floor refrigerator smells like horse farts.
5. concluded final analysis and prepared summary of how the break room fan makes a really scary noise and causes a lot of anxiety
6. "oh god christ theres a bee in the suit" and additional redacted commentary from launch events.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I actually had the privilege of advising the govt to do this a few years ago, so it is nice that it is happening. But even then, NASA was progressive and required open access to data and more from their supported publications. This is a notch up.
The problem is that it needs to be mandated across all journals, and the journals then will face a major problem -- how will they survive when one no longer needs to buy journal subscriptions to fund the journals? Government support isn't a good answer for lots of reasons. But what answer IS a good answer?
I don't know, but they'd better find it soon, because the Internet has made old-style journals largely obsolete and the public will no longer tolerate not being able to read the research they, after all, ultimately paid for. It is my profound hope that the NSF and other major agencies follow suit immediately. We'll see if e.g. Physical Review can survive it and deal with what comes either way.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
To the contrary, this is different.
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Seeing the face of NSA when giving away their virtual counterparts of predator drones and hellfire missiles for an apple and a dime ..priceless
Sad thing, when you wait 3 yrs. before selling that, back then brand new smartphone .. it means it isn't new and it was used by you.
Everything not classified should be available, every update, every file save, incomplete, half written, browser web history.
anything a NASA employee does or thinks during work hours is not private information and the public should have access to it.
Getting "original prints" of NASA moon landing photographs: Both arms and a leg
Finding the original film footage of the *actual* NASA moon landings with 12 minutes of previously unrelased footage from stage 15: Priceless
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shame that the interest of national security will automatically include anything half way interesting. granted we are talking about NASA papers not like USAF, so its not like there was a chance to see anything cool about aliens.
At least within astrophysics, essentially all papers are now posted to arxiv.org and are already available to anyone with an internet connection. This policy seems to be so late in coming that it will have no effect. Are other research fields so different?
Right After it's been totally censored by NASA, especially the false horizons.
has American embraced freedom over night?
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Good, but a year??? How about 30 days? How about 72 hours? How about simultaneously?
Does this mean they are going to publish them themselves or that we are now subsidizing through taxes the journals fighting tooth and nail to stifle the sharing of knowledge elsewhere?
Except for the fact that a large portion of the space work NASA does falls under the provisions of ITAR, which basically made it a crime to disclose on the internet dual-use military technologies (everything involved in missiles and satellites basically) since you can't realistically stop foreign downloads. This is why NTRS became a barren wasteland for a while when NASA went through and rechecked all the papers there for ITAR material.
Also, why PubSpace, rather than the existing NTRS? Is it that whole central government research repository push from the data.gov folks?
The code is available here. Papers here. NASA uses station data compiled by NOAA GHCN v3 (meteorological stations), ERSST v4 (ocean areas), and SCAR (Antarctic stations),
According to the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies "Anyone can download it, run it for themselves and get the answer before we update our website every month."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
enough said .... it's a positive thing.
This hopefully sets an example for the Academic world to be free as it should be otherwise is there any hope for the human species ?
Yes, thank you for allowing me to freely access that which my tax dollars helped pay for. </sarcasm>